# Regrettable fashions you secretly like **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 31, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937 "2004-05-31T18:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/1 "2004-05-31T18:20:15Z")
Inspired by the concurrent [Biggest Fashion Mistake](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=258803&page=1&pp=50) thread, this thread is the place to admit that you actually liked, or like, a fashion that everyone now derides. If you secretly liked mullets on guys, or stirrup pants on women this is the place to say so. Me? I always thought Nehru jackets were the bomb. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/2 "2004-05-31T18:59:07Z")
I love Nehru jackets. And capri pants. [not together, heh] But then, my legs are long. [and my knees look strange. As do all knees] 🙂 I also like back-less dresses. No bra, please [make sure you _can_] and no cleavage on front. That would make them tacky. Fun fur. The color green. ---
**Author:** ![Israfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/87869e/32.png) [@Israfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Israfel)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/3 "2004-05-31T19:03:02Z")
Another thumbs up for Nehru jackets and capri pants. I’m also fond of “puffy” shirts- which was also mentioned in the bad fashion thread. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/4 "2004-05-31T20:04:49Z")
Mules, you know those backless high heeled, fuzzy slippers/shoes. You see them in old movies. I know they’re inapproprate with anything but a negligee, which I waay don’t wear, but I like 'um. I feel much better now. ---
**Author:** ![The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_world_s_most_deadliest)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/5 "2004-05-31T20:26:17Z")
Ripped jeans. Both the overly-done 80’s hair metal ripped jeans, and the 90’s sensitive pair-em-with-flannels grunge god jeans. And I was once known to appreciate the shoulder pad, as my natural shoulders are sadly lacking. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/6 "2004-05-31T22:03:19Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Mules, you know those backless high heeled, fuzzy slippers/shoes. You see them in old movies. I know they’re inapproprate with anything but a negligee, which I waay don’t wear, but I like 'um. > I feel much better now. Mules, I believe. With marabou trim. I miss poet blouses. And I like peasant blouses (the fitted ones with the big floppy flared sleeves-I’ll probably be wearing them until I die!). And capris, even though I’m short. They’re cute. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/7 "2004-05-31T22:05:55Z")
Sleeveless sweaters. NOT vest-types with buttons. The pullover kind. ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/8 "2004-05-31T22:52:09Z")
I like '80s clothes. Yes, the stirrup pants with the big shirt down to my knees. Bonus points for shoulder pads and primary colors. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/9 "2004-05-31T23:05:51Z")
Another one: I also liked the acid washed jeans from about 15 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/10 "2004-05-31T23:17:47Z")
Luckily, everything eventually comes back. For instance, I luuuuuuv pointy toed shoes and they’re back! And long shorts are finally back just this year. Stuff I still like that isn’t back: High-cut panties Jeans for women that fit loosely and then taper somewhat at the ankles Lycra shorts for working out The last one drives me nuts. The standard rowing uniform is mid thigh lycra shorts. You need lycra so you don’t get any fabric caught in th tracks the seat slides on. Used to be I could wear rowing shorts while jogging and lifting. Now, lycra shorts are considered the most heinous workout wear you can wear… ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/11 "2004-06-01T00:05:02Z")
Not sure if this applies or not - BUT I haven’t cut my hair for 18 months. I now wear it in a pony tail. Perhaps not exactlly a fashion break through but I am 57 and have only traces of hair on top of the head. But I own a Harley and am retired. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/12 "2004-06-01T00:21:35Z")
Don’t mind me, I’m just jotting down the names of the fashionably, uh, challenged Dopers who were brave enough to post to this thread. As for me, I _like_ cropped pants but that’s because **a)** when worn with the right shoe, there’s nothing wrong with them and **b)** I have great ankles. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/13 "2004-06-01T00:23:55Z")
I will confess to really liking the exceedingly low-slung women’s jeans, the ones that produce the plumber’s cracks that so many of you complain about. Who the hell cares what it looks like from the back? From the front it gives us tummies! It gives us navels! ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/14 "2004-06-01T01:27:53Z")
I, too, favor the cropped pant, when worn with sandals (plain or high-heeled). And I have a strange weakness for really awful, Greg Brady-style polyester seventies shirts. The bigger the butterfly collar and the more garish the print, the better. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/15 "2004-06-01T01:32:29Z")
look!ninjas, you bring the shirts, I’ll bring the pants! I buy those vintage, seventies, flared, men’s sans-a-belt pants like, well, like they’re going out of style! They look _so_ good with a pair of high, high heels. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/16 "2004-06-01T02:16:16Z")
Do you remember that scene from \*Happy Days \*, where Fonzie throws open his closet, revealing a rack half full of of blue jeans and half full of white t-shirts? Dye the t-shirts black. Really. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/17 "2004-06-01T02:22:45Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I miss poet blouses. Me too. And pirate shirts. I think I still have my pirate shirt somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/18 "2004-06-01T04:45:57Z")
Faded Oversized Blue Jeans ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/19 "2004-06-01T05:00:10Z")
Western boots. I never tire of them. Living in Nashville, I sometimes wear them anyway. I liked granny dresses too – from the 1970’s. And I even miss the slinky kind of polyester that packed away to nothing. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937/20 "2004-06-01T05:27:20Z")
I heart pirate shirts, for myself or for Gunny. When we attend my sister’s wedding in July, he’s getting a ruffly shirt to go with his tux. This was his own choice. Personally, I like legwarmers. And I still dig the grunge look for guys. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regrettable-fashions-you-secretly-like/247937.md?page=2)